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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 20 23:13:27 -0800 2006 ------- what is the probability of the user needing to use the "repair"? This behaviour is looking very unprofessional (what users see is, OpenOffice is leaving temporary files around, and even worse, on their desktop). And in the extremely unlikely situation that the installation would need a repair, 99% of people wouldn't know that they have a repair option in the add/remove programs (and then there is the question of the probability of the repair option to work). And I'm expecting to see many computers with folders "OpenOffice 1.0 installation files" "OpenOffice 1.1 installation files" "OpenOffice 2.0 installation files" "OpenOffice 2.1 installation files", and so on. These are "system files" that users won't dare to delete "it might break something" and will stay there forever. Which means, this is wasting much more than 33% of disk space, and much more than 80Mb. In any case, of programs with downloadable installers on the internet, I think OpenOffice is absolutely the only one with this policy. firefox not, opera not, thunderbird not, winzip, inkscape, gaim, filezilla, blender, etc etc etc... not. I'm not sure about Acrobat reader though. I think at the very least the installer needs a checkbox "Keep installer files on disk for repair option (uses 80Mb)". But if the user downloaded the file from internet the first time (even using dialup), it's not shocking to ask them to do it again in the extremely unlikely case that they'd need the repair option. In the real world, dialup users will get OO from a CD and it won't be a problem for them to reinstall it, and users with a fast connection won't have a problem reinstalling. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
